Piaget Theory

 

 

   Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is made up of four stages.  The first stage is from birth to two years of age and is called the sensorimotor stage.   The baby learns to coordinate seeing and hearing with movement.  The second one is six to seven years of age, which is named as the preoperational stage.   During this stage the child understands objects and images.  Next is the concrete operational stage, which starts at age eleven and ends at age twelve.   The child can develop proper logic.  The last stage is from age twelve to adulthood, which is called the formal operations stage.   When the individual is faced with a problem he/she is able to contemplate all possible answers which are called hypothetic-deductive reasoning.